Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some families thus choose not to have children at all. Others, hoping that the baby will be a girl, go ahead with a pregnancy. But once they learn through amniocentesis that the fetus is male, they will opt for an abortion. Even though there is a fifty-fifty chance that the boy will not be a hemophiliac, medicine has had no way of telling whether those odds would be in the parents' favor...
...needle, they withdraw a few drops of the baby's blood, which is analyzed by radioimmunoassay techniques for factor VIII. To date, investigators have used the experimental procedure on eight women, all of whom had family histories of severe hemophilia. In four cases the tests showed that the fetus carried almost none of the clotting factor. Abortions were performed; tests later confirmed that the fetuses had severe hemophilia. In the other four cases, because the tests revealed that the fetus was normal, the pregnancies continued, and three of the women have already given birth to healthy boys...
Originally Edelin was charged only with "ruthless and reckless conduct" towards the five-month old fetus when it was alive outside its mother's body...
...chief prosecution witness then testified that the fetus died within the womb because Edelin kept his hand in the uterus through an abdominal incision. The presiding judge at the trial said a manslaughter victim had to be "alive outside the body of the mother." Nonetheless, Edelin was convicted...
William P. Homans Jr. '41, Edelin's lawyer, said after the trial that his client was convicted because the jury was convicted that a fetus should be considered alive after it has been separated from the mother's placenta inside the womb...